Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

polarizable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English

Syllables: po-lar-iz-able
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Able to be polarized

Etymology

Etymology tree English polarize Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English polarizable From polarize + -able.

Inflected Forms

more polarizable (comparative) most polarizable (superlative)

Derived Forms

depolarizable impolarizable nonpolarizable unpolarizable

Questions

What does polarizable mean?: Able to be polarized
Where does polarizable come from?: Etymology tree English polarize Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English polarizable From polarize + -able.

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